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"Why put (Spicer) out there for the very first time, in front of the podium, to utter a provable falsehood?" Todd asked.
After the pair argued for a bit, Conway replied, "You're saying it's a falsehood, and ... Sean Spicer, our press secretary, gave alternative facts to that."
Todd wasn't buying it.
"Wait a minute – alternative facts? Alternative facts? . ... Alternative facts are not facts; they're falsehoods," he fired back.
"Alternative facts are not facts. They are falsehoods," Chuck Todd tells Pres. Trump's counselor Kellyanne Conway this morning. WATCH: pic.twitter.com/Ao005dQ13r
— Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) January 22, 2017
The exchange quickly spread on social media, inspiring the snarky hashtag #AlternativeFacts.
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